Sima
Cloud-based facial verification access control device
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Heath Driscoll

Active Witness Cloud Access Control - DITCH YOUR KEYCARDS - get mobile friendly facility access

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DITCH YOUR KEYCARDS. Active Witness develops cloud-based access control that leverages mobile credentials and facial verification for frictionless facility security. Simple-to-use, frictionless, multi-factor access for your facility.

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Heath Driscoll
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Physical security is boring. It's expensive. It's complicated. And worst of all - for several decades business owners have been paying too much for something that frankly isn't that secure. Keycards stink - they're easily replicated and are a pain to replace. On-premises server-based solutions are complicated to install and cumbersome to manage. This is why Active Witness created Sima (that's what we call our Access Control system). We wanted to create a solution that was easy to install, simple to use, and highly secure. We have a patented approach to facility access that utilizes multi-factor authentication, which uses mobile credentials and your face as your replacement for the traditional keycard. No user, facility, or access point is the same. No entry point is the same and therefore why should they have the same access requirements? And why should an intern have the same security access as the CEO? So why do legacy systems not allow you to create customized security requirements for different areas within a facility or each employee? Most access control solutions have only keycard access. Active Witness provides a digital doorbell, intercom, mobile access, multi-factor credentials, database lookups, scheduling options, expirable credentials, and more. How does it work? A user simply displays their QR code to the door reader to create an "identity claim". This effectively tells the device "I am John Doe". The user must then present their face to the camera, to validate a 1:1 match. This process is known as facial verification. Why is Facial Verification beneficial? 1) in contrast to Facial Recognition (where a user must receive a 1:many match), the processing time tends to be much faster as you aren't comparing data to a large database, AND 2) Facial Verification doesn't represent any privacy concerns as the camera only begins scanning for biometrics when prompted by a QR code (whereas facial recognition is ALWAYS scanning, unbeknownst to the users).